Holiday music, 2006 edition

I’ve had to physically restrain the Hesperia Star’s office manager, Sharon, from putting up holiday decorations before this morning. She’s of the camp that believes that they should go up by the day after Thanksgiving at the latest, whereas I find that the Christmas season shouldn’t start until December. (I blame growing up with advent calendars in the house.)

But today is D-Day (“D,” of course, for “decorations”) and I expect to go into the Star and find that it’s been transformed into Santa’s newsroom.

For my part, I’m bringing in a new mix of Christmas and holiday music on Ye Olde Stolen Music Repository.

Years ago, back when I was in the grip of my Great Theories About Bachelordom, one of the theories was that I needed to have my own holiday music so that I could host, I dunno, swinging bachelor pad cocktail parties or something. (I think I had all of one.) So I set out to start collecting Christmas music, but I didn’t want to get the same old, same old stuff. Every year, I try to get one or two new albums of really cool Christmas music, especially of good takes by popular musicians or great interpretations of classics that stand up on their own merits (like the album of slack-key guitar Christmas songs, for instance).

This year’s mix is an hour and 20 minutes of rock and pop Christmas tunes. Most of them came from iTunes or from CDs I’d purchased, although a few are from a KROQ Kevin & Bean Christmas CD, so those songs may be harder to track down, for those playing along at home.

Here’s the ones available in iTunes:

And the ones that are not, for some reason:

• “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” (Mulato Beat Remix) – Louis Armstrong & Velman Middleton
• “Christmas Wrapping” – Save Ferris
• “Jesus Was a Dreidel Spinner” – Jill Sobule
• “Please Come Home for Christmas” – Unwritten Law
• “We Three Kings of Orient Are” – The Beach Boys

Find those on your own. Ho, ho, ho.

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